Lilian Lo, interviewed by Elizabeth Hardink
Scope and Contents
Maine Folklife Center and the Hudson Museum at the University of Maine proposed to study and present the ways that immigrants in central and eastern Maine connect themselves with their ethnicity.
Dates
- February to June 2005
Creator
- From the Collection: MacDougall, Pauleena (Interviewer, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
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Extent
From the Collection: 16 items
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Abstract
NA3727 Lilian Lo, interviewed by Elizabeth Hardink, April 16, 2005. Lo talks about being born in Hong Kong; spending her first twenty four years there; coming to Maine in 1981; owing Oriental Jade, a Chinese restaurant in Bangor, Maine with her husband Victor; working for a real estate business in Hong Kong; Hong Kong becoming more liberal; cultural differences in China from the 70s to the 90s; Hong Kong’s shift toward international food in recent times; Hong Kong immigrants during the 90s from political instability; adapting to American culture from Hong Kong; women’s rights in Chinese culture, past and present; Chinese opinion on education and its costs; change of importance of marriage and kids in Chinese culture; American media in Hong Kong; Chinese view on American work ethics; popularity behind the Oriental Jade in Bangor; difficulties of having a Chinese restaurant in Bangor. Text: 29 pp. transcript.
- Education Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Emigration and immigration -- Maine Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Food habits -- Social aspects Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Hong Kong (China) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Marriage Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Oral history Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Oriental Jade (Bangor, Me.)
- Women's rights -- China -- History Subject Source: Local sources
Repository Details
Part of the Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History Repository
5729 Raymond H. Fogler Library
University of Maine
Orono ME 04469-5729 United States
207.581.1686
